Seed-stage fund founded by Semil Shah, investing $500K-$2M per company with a "people over sectors" thesis. Portfolio includes 16 unicorns and 60+ companies valued over $100M. Named to Forbes Midas Seed List four consecutive years.
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Works on all investment activity at Haystack from identifying new companies to helping founders scale post-investment.
Invests across stages at Haystack and is in charge of capital formation and The Alignment Summit.
Founded Haystack in 2013, prolific early stage investor with investments in DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Hashicorp, and Applied Intuition.
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